You've got a solid four-bar loop going. The drums are locked in, the bass is grooving, but something's missing. You try adding a new synth line, but it clutters the mix. You experiment with a string pad, but it sits there like a static cloud. The ene...
You're programming a bass sequence for your IDM track. The notes are triggering, the rhythm is glitchy and interesting, but something feels... wrong. The sequence sounds random rather than intentionally chaotic. You tweak velocities, adjust timing, a...
You've programmed the perfect house groove. The kick is punchy, the bass line grooves, your pad progression sounds lush. But when you add a vocal hook or topline melody, something feels... off. It sits there like a stranger at a party, not quite conn...
You know that feeling when you sit down to make a downtempo track—something dreamy and cinematic like Tycho or Bonobo—and what comes out sounds... amateur? Like you can *hear* the track you want to make in your head, but your hands can't translat...
You've been making techno for a while now. You know your sound. Kick on every quarter note. Hi-hats doing their thing on the offbeats. Bassline locked to the root notes. Pads entering at bar 32. It works. It's solid. And you're absolutely, mind-numbi...
You've got your main melody locked in—that soaring, emotional lead line that's going to carry your trance anthem. But when you layer in the second melody or counter-melody, something feels off. Either they're fighting for space, creating uncomforta...
You've got your trance track pumping. The kick is driving, the bass is rolling, your lead melody is euphoric. Everything's there... and that's the problem. When everything plays at full intensity for four minutes straight, nothing feels special. Your...
You've been staring at the same breakbeat for three hours. You've nudged that snare hit back and forth by 5ms increments. You've auditioned seventeen different kick samples. The break sounds... fine. But it doesn't have that *energy*. That rolling, p...
You've been sitting on that groove for forty-five minutes. The kick hits perfectly on the one, your hi-hats are shuffling just right, but something feels... unfinished. You keep reaching for a new chord, maybe a transition to the relative minor, but ...
You've nailed the perfect Juno pad sound. Your drums hit with that gated reverb thump. But when you sit down to write a chord progression, you either cycle through the same four chords you always use, or you freeze—clicking randomly through MIDI no...
